News from December 2016
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Park Superintendent, Lloyd Masayumptewa announces the new tour fee rate for touring the Hubbell Home. The new rate will be $5.00 per person for adults ages 16 and older. Younger children ages 15 and younger are not charged a fee. The fee money will be used to support administrative costs of the fee program.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN), which authorizes funding for the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) navigation, flood control, and environmental restoration projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Georgia Bank Teller Sentenced to Prison for Cashing Fraudulently Obtained Income Tax Refund Checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Prosecuted Under HOPE Initiative that Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that MARQUE DESHARD THOMAS, age 41, of Austell, Georgia, was sentenced to 33 months imprisonment for POSSESSION OF A COUNTERFEIT OBLIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 472 and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dominique Lassiter, age 26, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking and possession of firearms by a felon.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: The endangered Gila topminnow, which returned to the Santa Cruz River after a 10 year absence, now appears to be thriving. The native Arizona species, listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1967, was found last year in the Santa Cruz River near Nogales, Arizona for the first time since 2005. Annual surveys conducted in November confirm that Gila topminnow remain in the river and have likely increased in number.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Mexican national heavily involved in a California-to-West Virginia drug conspiracy was sentenced today to 12 years and seven months in federal prison for a drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Daniel Ortiz-Rivera, 24, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement after the Senate passed S. 2943, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which includes two Chaffetz sponsored bills aimed at reforming how misconduct is handled within the federal workforce.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: A Toledo man was indicted for having more than 11 pounds of cocaine, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Several pharmaceutical executives and managers, formerly employed by Insys Therapeutics, Inc., were arrested today on charges that they led a nationwide conspiracy to bribe medical practitioners to unnecessarily prescribe a fentanyl-based pain medication and defraud healthcare insurers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - A father, mother and two sons pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for their roles in a food stamp fraud case related to retail meat home delivery services and that involved the exchange of Oxycodone, heroin and marijuana for food stamps in the Dayton area.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, December 8, 2016 - Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) today enters the final stages of planning for dog management with the release of a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) with Preferred Alternative.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Federal and local law enforcement authorities today arrested multiple members and suppliers of a drug trafficking organization that allegedly distributed hundreds of grams of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding areas, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: A Mexican national was sentenced yesterday to 24 years in federal prison for kidnapping a U.S. citizen in Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Joplin, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for the sexual exploitation of two child victims.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: MELROSE PARK, Ill. - Just six weeks after a machine amputated a maintenance worker's left hand as he cleared jammed material stuck in a machine at its Melrose Park bread products facility, the company reported a second worker's right forearm suffered multiple fractures as he cleaned another machine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A Boones Mills man, who conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) met with Treasury Secretary Nominee Steven Mnuchin in his office in the U.S. Capitol. Following the meeting, which lasted approximately 40 minutes, Hatch issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today Antonio Eldridge, 28, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
